I just really liked this mosaic outside the
Cardo mall. One day I want to have a
good mosaic in my house.
Free day in the Jewish Quarter! I spent most of today seeing a few of the sites and just exploring :) That'll never get old. It's still so crazy to me how you can just be walking through, and suddenly you've moved into a different quarter without realizing it-- and you're in a whole different culture, with different language and dress and smells and foods and everything! Of course, it still all feels like Jerusalem... anyway. It's just great :) First stop was at the Ariel Center, a kind of small guided museum/lecture where we learned about the first temple period. I loved it. And I really like a lot of the local guides--they know so much!
A bunch of the girls in the Jewish Quarter! We're in front of the Broad Wall (which Hezekiah built in the 8th century BC in preparation Judah's rebellion against Assyria. Just the excavated remains now, but it was huge-- supposedly about 8 m high and 7 m wide back in the day) And you totally can't see it in the picture... I promise it's there :)
Lunchtime! We stopped for falafels and shwarmas (my first!)... and had to take this crazy attractive picture ;) Despite the faces we're all making, they were actually SO yummy! :)
With Tessa on top of the Hurva Synagogue!
See the building at the top left with all the arches? That's the Jerusalem Center (known around here as "Mormon University") up on Mount Scopus (the tower to the right is the Augusta Victoria tower.) In the foreground is the Temple Mount. In between the two is the narrow Kidron Valley--really not a long distance, but the hills are killer in the afternoons! :)
PS-- here's a picture Dr. Chadwick took in Luxor that has both my head and the camel's in the same frame! Wahoo! :)
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